It was light on specifics but the following are the facts I was able to glean from it:
- In October of 2016 at the height of the bitter Election Campaign between Republican Trump and Democratic Clinton, the FBI and the Department of Justice applied to the Courts for a warrant to allow surveillance of one of Trump's campaign workers...Carter Page.
- This same Carter Page had been the subject of their investigations prior to the time that Donald Trump came onto the scene.
- Key information, without which, it is agreed by all, the Judge would not have allowed the issuance of the Warrant was supplied by Hillary Clinton's Campaign and by the Democratic Party at great expense ($) to them both.
- All of this Information in due course turned out to be false.
- It was obtained by Clinton et al from the Russians through an intermediary by the name of ChristopherSteele ...a self professed 'Trump Hater'.
- Finally, the application to the Court did not expose the fact that Hillary / Her Party were the principals involved in obtaining this data, but it did allow that it had come from a 'political rival of Trump.
Trump claims that the Nunes' Memo 'completely vindicates him'. It does not, but in truth does not matter since he never needed vindication...there has never been any evidence tying him to Russia's alleged interference in the 2016 Election.
The Democrats on the other-hand say 'there is nothing there ...move on'.
'Nothing there?' Other than the fact that it confirms both the FBI and DOJ were fully aware of the fact that it was Hillary and her Campaign who were playing footsies with the Ruskies in advance of Election Day.
So in the post Election period is it not the height of hypocrisy for Hillary to blame the Russians and their ties to the Trump Campaign as one of the major reasons for her election loss? The woman has no shame.
And how is it that the Meuller Special Prosecutory Commission was allowed to form to investigate the non-existent Trump - Russia connection when these senior FBI / DOJ officials knew all along that the real culprit in this sorry mix was Dear Hillary?
Talk about being in the bag for one candidate over the other.
Long time readers will know that I jokingly say that you can be sure a politician is lying as soon as their lips start to move. Sadly this is more often true than not.
But at least you get an opportunity every 4 years to vote the most notorious out of office.
What can you do though in the case of faceless senior enforcement officers who try to influence the outcome of our democratic elections.
More on that another time.
As I see it...
'K.D. Galagher'
